Chuo University is a private university in Tokyo, renowned for its law school. The University has three campuses at Tama for arts, at Korakuen for science, and at Ichigaya for law. Chuo University has now six faculties (law, economics, commerce, science and engineering, literature, policy studies), seven graduate schools, and nine research institutes. It also operates three high schools.

Founded as the English Law Schoolin 1885 at Nishiki by a group of lawyers. By 1889, the school had moved and been renamed Tokyo College of Law (Tokyo Hogakuin). The curriculum was changed to reflect the government reform of Japanese law and creation of a new Civil Code. Opposition to the implementation of the new civil code resulted in the government shuttering of the campus journal and the subsequent creation of the Chou Law Review (Hogaku Shinpo), which has since been published regularly.

The university burned down in the Great Kanda Fire of 1892, but was able to move forward with temporary classes. By 1903, the school been promoted to Tokyo University of Law (Tokyo Hogakuin Daigaku) and in 1905 the school expanded with a department of Economics, renaming itself Chuo University.

Another fire torched the campus in June 1917, but it was rebuilt by August 1918. Alas, in 1923 the Great Kantф earthquake (1923) again reduced the campus to rubble and it was rebuilt, moving to Kanda-Surugadai in 1926. It has since moved and expanded on three separate campuses, one at Tama (Hachioji) for arts, at Korakuen for science, and at Ichigaya (Shinjuku) for law.